Captain Amerika & Donny @ We Love HK: 2024/5/1

消失在地圖上的天水圍村

Short walk in Tin Shui Wai Village (disappeared from the map)

(元朗福康街小巴總站→小巴 74號→盛屋村總站→轉入右方車路→天水圍村→天水圍及豐樂圍)

(Fuk Hong Street minibus terminus→Minibus no. 74→Shing Uk Village minibus terminus→Turn right for another traffic road→Tin Shui Wai Village→Tin Shui Wai / Fung Lok Wai Fish ponds)

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舊日天水圍 Old Tin Shui Wai:

https://www.hkbws.org.hk/fishpondoralhistory/index.php/tsw/

由朗屏站出發.

Starts from Long Ping MTR station.

小巴總站

Minibus terminus.

Minibus no. 74.

盛屋村總站.

Alight @ Shing Uk Village mini-bus terminus.

轉右. Turn right for the village road.

丫髻山 (髻山).

Ngai Kai Shan (peak), or "Kai Shan".

本來今日是想來看鳳眼藍, 可惜仍未開花.

魚塘上的大片綠葉便是鳳眼藍的葉.

We came here today for seeing water hyacinth blooming, but a pity we couldn't find any flowers!!

The big piece of green leaves above the fish pond are the leaves of water hyacinth, not sure whether the flowering month will come in June or after autumn.....

沒有鳳眼藍, 但魚塘早已被其葉子佔領了.

Some of the fish ponds are already swallowed by the leaves of water hyacinth.

突然出現一條村落, 是地圖上沒有的天水圍村!

天水圍早已變成新市鎮, 這邊的天水圍村仍然是寧靜的小漁村, 彷彿回到舊香港.

Suddenly we saw an old fishing village, with a few pieces of farmlands around.

This place is old Tin Shui Wai Village, which is NOT found on the maps.

"Tin Shui Wai" which can be seen on the maps refers to Tin Shui Wai Town Centre, the old Tin Shui Wai Village is far away from the town centre, the village roads are still in very old style, we feel like walking through a time tunnel, going back to the old Hong Kong.

天水圍村的土地公公.

The Deity of Land, worshipped by the villagers, a typical old style shrine.

車路仍然是昔日的沙石路, 沒有石屎, 偶然有村車經過, 完全是昔日鄉郊的生活模式.

村車本來是小貨車, 從前用來運貨到墟市的, 現在村外有小巴, 村車幾乎已絕跡.

這裡離小巴站很遠, 沒有小巴服務, 村民都要步行到小巴站.

村車由尖鼻咀方向來, 其實也沒有停下來, 車路是沙石, 村車走過時都會震動.

The traffic road is still in old style (gravel road), sometimes we can see little trucks coming from Tsim Bei Tsui (尖鼻咀) direction, NO public transport available in this place, villagers have to walk on these gravel roads for the nearest mini-bus stop.

In the old days, when not many mini-buses are available in the countryside, little trucks carry residents or vegetables grown in the villages to the town centre.

Now as the public transport reaches most of the big villages, these village trucks don't always come, quite a surprise we can still see one today, as this village is really too far away from the outside world.